PokeWalker Steps Purchasing
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Currently a user can exchange Interaction Points for Steps in the Pokewalker, which in turn generate Watts at a rate of 1K IP = 100 Steps = 5 Watts.
The Dowsing Minigame, the main reason why I exchange IP for steps, goes for 3 Watts each attempt, and your Pokemon can hold 3 items at a time before needing to transfer them to PFQ. This means, to be as conservative as possible and with best luck, for 3 successful Dowsing attempts I need to pay 2k IP for 10 Watts, and I lose 1 Watt. More often, I will lose 2-4 Watts through this per each transfer as I only pay enough for the amount of dowsing attempts I have left.
I understand that storing Watts is one of the features of the Pokewalker - to unlock new areas - and that this situation will indirectly do that, but after reaching the last area it's just wasted watts as far as I know (and conversly IP). It may not be much of a deal for a casual player, but I've spent millions of IP dowsing daily and the losses add up at such a scale.
My suggestion would be for the exchange to scale by tens of IP, not thousands, or alternatively make the exchange scale by Watts/Steps, not by IP.
Edit: Here's some math to show what I mean.
With the assumption I get an item on every dowsing attempt in a day (which is essentially impossible):
Exact Watts per 3 Good Dowsings / Watts per 3 Good Dowsings = Percentage of Watts wasted on Good Dowsings
(1 - (9 Watts / 10 Watts)) * 100 = 10% of Lost IP
Daily Cap / Steps to IP = Daily IP
15000 Steps / (100 Steps / 1000 IP) = 150,000 IP
Daily IP * Percentage of Watts wasted on Good Dowsings = Minimum Daily IP Lost
150,000 IP * 10% of Lost IP = 15,000 IP
So at best odds we lose at least 10% of our payment. With similar logic:
Daily Cap / Steps to Watts = Daily Watts
15000 Steps / (20 Steps / 1 Watt) = 750 Watts
Daily Watts / Watts per 3 Good Dowsings = Daily 3 Good Dowsing Attempts
750 Watts / (10 Watts / 1 Attempt) = 75 Attempts
Daily Watts / Exact Watts per 3 Good Dowsings = Exact Daily 3 Good Dowsing Attempts
750 Watts / (9 Watts / 1 Attempt) = 83 1/3 Attempts (It's not evenly divisible, that's fine)
Daily 3 Good Dowsing Attempts / Exact Daily 3 Good Dowsing Attempts = Percentage of missing Good Dowsing Attempts
(1 - (75 Attempt / 83 1/3 Attempts)) * 100 = 10% of lost attempts
So at best odds we could have another 10% of our daily attempts. With the example here, that's 83 - 75 = 8 more attempts * 3 items each = 24 extra items daily.
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